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Rate hikes and federal spending don't seem related, until we get into the underlying intent of our fiscal leaders.  It's not a pretty sight.  But it is to be expected that a government entity, the Federal Reserve in this case, will…

The Food and Drug Administration went too far in its campaign to persuade Americans not to take the drug ivermectin as a treatment for COVID-19, a federal appeals court ruled Friday. The decision did not make any judgments about the…

Chairman of the Federal Reserve Jerome Powell hinted that more interest rate hikes may be coming during a speech in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, on Friday.Powell along with other central bank officials and finance and economics experts met for…

Reacting to the news that David Weiss has been appointed special counsel in the Hunter Biden investigation, Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart lamented to Friday’s PBS NewsHour that Fox News has feed its viewers…

Podcast host Joe Rogan asserted in his latest episode that there was “real fraud” in the 2022 Arizona governor’s race between Kari Lake and now-Gov. Katie Hobbs. By the official tally, Hobbs won the contest by approximately 17,100 votes…

Why is the S&P 500 (SPY) racing ahead? And what clues do we have as to what stocks will do next? Steve Reitmeister shares the answer to these timely questions including previews of the 4 ETFs and 5 stocks he recommended for…

A disgusted South Carolina parent recently flung his contempt for his local school board at their feet in the form of chicken feed. Parent David Cook has been trying to get the Beaufort County School District school board to remove…

A year before the Great Recession hit in 2008, bank regulators were concerned with a "$600-billion debt overhang" in commercial real estate (CRE).  We didn't pay much attention to it because all our loans were well collateralized and…

In an uncharacteristic move, New York’s left-wing, progressive, Democrat Mayor, Eric Adams, has taken a shot at a Democrat president, saying that Joe Biden’s open border policies are “destroying” his city. Adams lashed out at Biden’s…

Federal law enforcement officials revealed in new court documents some of the sadistic acts of violence that the four sons of former Sinaloa drug cartel leader Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman inflicted on anyone who got in their way.The four…